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Yes, I'll handle Alma if you want her to do something. Same for Russet and Zeth. At least until we have a narrative moment where I can explain their departure.

I would encourage you – with your own creative works for sale – not to feel beholden to any of the WotC/Hasbro formats. There's a healthy tradition of changing up the mold when it serves the project better. To your greater question, for all the greater clarity that's gained with a mechanistic...

Wow, it's like I'm listening to myself DMing during 4th edition! ;) Every group I've been in kind of matches what you describe – half are invested/rules-savvy, half are casual/no-books, and several struggle with knowing what their characters do (through a combo of badly organized digital...

Convenient link to OOC discussion @Neurotic is leading: [OOC] Quickleaf's Rime of the Frostmaiden [closed but waitlist is available]

EDIT: Oops! Just wanted to say love that you're planning. No rush, have fun with it. Btw, I think Alter Self is limited to same size (gnome couldn't look like a human or half-orc sized).

GM POST Fresh snow makes for easy tracking, as Lumrolur follows the deep shuffling boot prints, finally catching up to the lumbering half-orc. A shadow in the bluish gloom, Lumrolur follows at a safe distance like a shadow on the timber and stone buildings sagging under recent snows. You...

Jack's attention is quite diverted by the illusory tale of the polar bear he artfully weaves for the three children. Thankfully, his companions have their wits about them. Alma is able to engage with the half-elven woman pouring over a journal, bonding in shared scholarly eccentricities. "A...

My fav approach to cantrip limitation is Beyond the Wall: Make spellcasting check when you use a cantrip. If succeed, you cast it fine. If you fail, either you cast and exhaust your uses of that cantrip for the day OR you let the GM come up with a miscast complication.

Been ages since I ran piratical D&D, but the dwarven mage made absolutely awesome use of flaming sphere in the nautical combat and drove off attacking pirates. But to get to that point, they had to survive an arcane gated boarding party (arcane gate comes into range roughly same as regular...

One thing D&D almost never handles well is stun-locking mitigation / soft counters /making it engaging. You mentioned increased mobility in 5.5 combats? I think that's in incredible win. With your experience running 5.5, what do you attribute that to? Because it would seem to be antithetical to...

Yes, true. There’s always blur over at late/end of editions. The explosion of NWP was distinctly associated with 2e. I was more coming at it from the concept of updated clones - for example, OSRIC does not include NWPs afaicr.

From what I remember of playing lots of 2e (with questionable adherence to the rules), when it comes to distinct mechanical features of 2e, there are only two that stick in my memory… Nonweapon proficiencies involving an eclectic mix of “stuff you can just do”, stuff that interfaces with...

If it’s going to be a rigorous system - and not an ad hoc “let’s make it work” spirit of cooperation - then a class based system is what makes sense to me. I believe Grim Hollow has examples of this approach.

Sorry to see you go Happylace! But I completely understand. Stay safe and good luck with everything on your plate.💜 You’re always welcome at my “tables” I will have to puzzle out what to do with Alma and the other retired PCs still with party, but that’s a good problem.

Justice of the Weald and Woe is one I was adapting for a villain that could make an interesting ranger subclass. A stealth-focused, bow-specialized, poison-using, tree striding (like a dryad?), unusual magic using ranger seems like a niche apart from the Arcane Archer and distinct enough from...

Love it. Years ago we used the language “save…AND THEN die” to describe this sort of telegraphing doom but giving players a chance to avoid/prevent/mitigate/use to their advantage before it happens. A simple example is poison as quick damage vs. ongoing/escalating/time-delayed damage. I love...

Greed? Ah, we've been expecting you.

Amazing! I love Adam Rex, that art is phenomenal. :) Wish I was into 2024 D&D, because there’s so much good art.